Colorado tops 1 million votes cast

More than 1 million Colorado voters could go trick-or-treating wearing “I voted” stickers tonight, Secretary of State Scott Gessler announced Wednesday afternoon.

Gesssler said that reports from the state’s 64 county clerks showed that 1,150,608 Coloradans had either returned their completed mail ballots or voted in person at early-voting polling places by Tuesday night.

That included 77,643 ballots cast by Boulder County voters and 51,308 by Weld County voters, according to Gessler’s Wednesday afternoon report.

The Boulder County Clerk and Recorder’s Office posted a slightly smaller turnout on its website Wednesday morning — two fewer votes than the secretary of state’s Wednesday afternoon report. Boulder County reported that it had gotten 69,014 completed mail ballots back by Tuesday night, while another 8,627 voters had cast ballots in person at the county’s early-voting polling places.

On a statewide basis, Republicans are voting early or returning their filled-out mail ballots in somewhat higher numbers than Democrats, according to the Secretary of State’s Office. As of that office’s Wednesday afternoon report, ballots had been cast: 439,269 registered Republicans; 404,870 registered Democrats; 295,122 voters unaffiliated with any political party; 6,077 Libertarians; 2,260 Green Party voters; 1,810 American Constitution Party voters; and 1,290 Americans Elect Party members.

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The votes cast at that point in Weld County, according to the Secretary of State’s Office, included: 22,789 Republicans; 14,299 voters unaffiliated with any party; 13,745 Democrats; 217 Libertarians; 113 American Constitution Party members; 79 Americans Elect Party voters; and 66 Green Party voters.

The Secretary of State’s tally from Boulder County included: 38,672 votes cast by registered Democrats; 21,669 by unaffiliated voters; 16,440 by Republicans; 418 by Libertarians; 294 by Green Party members; 94 by Americans Elect Party voters; and 56 by American Constitution Party voters.

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